Question

they asked us,"are you going anywhere at the weekend.?" change sentence into reported speech.​

Answer 1

We can change the sentence into reported speech as "They asked us if we are going anywhere at the weekend".

Answer 2

Answer:

They asked us if we were going anywhere at the weekend.

Explanation:

What is indirect/reported speech?

• Indirect speech (also spelt as reported speech) refers to the reporting of a conversation that took place between two people to someone else.
• It is usually expressed in the third person perspective and minor changes have to be done during the conversion.

• As per the rules of speech conversion, when the reporting verb of direct speech is in past tense then all the present tenses are changed to the corresponding past tense in indirect speech.

• When a direct speech sentence begins with an auxiliary verb/helping verb usually in interrogative sentences, the joining clause should start using if or whether.

• The given direct speech is in Present Continuous Tense following the sentence structure (to be+ Subject + Verb-ing).

• Thus in the reported speech, the structure will change to Past Continuous Tense (Subject + was/were + Verb-ing).

• The pronoun "you" changes to "we".

Therefore the reported narration will use "if" for the same and can be written as-

They asked us if(/whether) we were going anywhere at the weekend.

#SPJ2